Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 2 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 3 | The decent community solidarity and welfare socialism that Mr Kinnock embodied was caught on the horns of a terrible contradiction , which Labour in opposition did nothing to resolve , since it did not tackle early enough the low tax/public spending anti-welfare consensus that Thatcherism built . |
| 4 | Turning to collective behaviour , opinion of those interviewed was divided on the effect of television on attendance in the Chamber . |
| 5 | The women interviewed were assessed on the number of amenities — running hot water , nearness to shops and so on — and aids — vacuum cleaners , washing machines and so forth — they possessed . |
| 6 | Disillusion was etched on the child 's face . |
| 7 | A middle-aged man with corn-coloured hair and the bluest eyes Willie had ever seen was sitting on a stool milking one of a handful of cows . |
| 8 | I heard rapping at the window beside my bed and another young woman whom I had n't met was standing on the window ledge of the hotel . |
| 9 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 10 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 11 | Apart from the two singles , the only new non-Ukrainian songs fans heard were contained on a John Peel session broadcast in May , and one of those was a madcap cover of Altered Image 's ‘ Happy Birthday ’ . |
| 12 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 13 | The chase which followed was captured on a takeway restuarant 's security video , this was to form part of the prosecution evidence . |
| 14 | The next thing I remember was lying on the ground surrounded by players and officials . ’ |
| 15 | We decided one of our first things we had to do was decide on a sequence of construction for these tanks . |
| 16 | After all the interviews , TV programmes and everything , all I wanted to do was get on the track again . ’ |
| 17 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 18 | He told my father that he could see my father 's guide and that proof was possible : all my father had to do was relax on a bed , say the Lord 's Prayer , then call out the name Massa . |
| 19 | Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table . |
| 20 | ‘ He said what I needed was throwing on the floor and to be given a good seeing to , ’ she told the Norwich hearing . |
| 21 | What little money he did have was spent on a record selected with extreme care which became , to his way of thinking , a possession close to his heart . |
| 22 | This might have made sense when all Council decisions that mattered were passed on the basis of unanimity . |
| 23 | It was regarded as a great advance when third-class passenger expresses were introduced on the East India Railway . |
| 24 | The trajectory along which all economies , as they industrialized , would inevitably pass was asserted on the basis of two pieces of ‘ evidence ’ . |
| 25 | In one version of the mental test the prices of items bought were printed on the answer sheet so that they did not have to be memorized : in an alternative version the prices were not printed so that it was necessary both to memorize the numbers and operate on them . |
| 26 | Two Cellophane-wrapped sprays that she had been unable to deliver were lying on the bouquet of roses she had prepared for her rival . |
| 27 | No , if they bid for the franchise , then , and get it , obviously that franchise runs for the period , and by the way , a lot of the criticisms in the film , I think were based on a misunderstanding that all the franchises are going to be short , they 're not , those where there 's a substantial investment going in can be quite a bit longer |
| 28 | The first thing I did was get on the phone to her . |
| 29 | The level of shock being delivered was shown on the apparatus as being ‘ severe ’ , dangerous ' , and , at the top end of the scale , just ‘ xxx ’ . |
| 30 | The four men who were killed were sent on a murder mission . |